Corrigé Bac STMG LV2 Anglais 2014

PROPOSITION DE CORRIGÉ
1. COMPREHENSION DE L’ECRIT
Documents 1 and 2
A. The two MOST important themes that are found in BOTH texts are:
communication & travelling
Document 1
B. (3) A gapper is a person who takes a break from his/her studies
C. 1 – The blogger’s parents and friends can find out what the
blogger is doing or has been doing
2 – Bloggers themselves can document their trip
3 – Potential employers can see if the gapper has used their year
productively
4 – Other travellers can get ideas or advice for their own trip
D. Document 1 is (1) a press article
Document 2
E. The narrator is ENGLISH. He travelled to THE USA /TO AMERICA. He
stayed there for SIX MONTHS.
F. 1) The narrator writes about events (b) A FEW DECADES AGO.
2) The narrator goes abroad (a) TO HAVE TIME OFF ON HIS OWN.
3) The narrator’s parents expected (c) OCCASIONAL POSTCARDS.
Documents 1 and Document 2
G. 1) Travellers kept a record of their experience and communicated in
the past by keeping a diary or a journal, by giving long-distance phone
calls, sending telegrams or postcards.
2) Today, travellers can keep a blog, take photos, use a mobile phone,
send e-mails or ‘skype’.
H. The following statements are true
1) ONLY document 2: Not giving parents real-time information may be a
good thing: